Home » Programmes » Waste Guide » Legislation » Controlled Waste » Hazardous Waste and Special Waste

In this section…

Hazardous Waste and Special Waste

Until recently legislation in the UK controlled special waste but not all hazardous waste was special waste. This has resulted in some difficulty and confusion as a number of newer pieces of legislation (e.g. those relating to incineration, pollution prevention and control and landfill) are underpinned by the need to consider the hazardous properties of waste. To address this, a number of changes to UK legislation are underway.

The first of these was introduced in Scotland during 2004 (Special Waste Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2004) and were followed by the Hazardous Waste (England & Wales) Regulations 2005. It is anticipated that the new legislation to be introduced in Northern Ireland will more closely follow that in Scotland rather than the counterpart in England and Wales. That for Wales is likely to be similar to the legislation for England.
Sustainability Exchange small logo

The number one resource
for sustainability in post-16 education

Connect

Contact Us    Email sustainabilityexchange@eauc.org.uk
Terms & Conditions    Legal & Privacy    Cookies    Site by Hughes Media

The Sustainability Exchange website and its content are © 2024 Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC). All Rights Reserved, except where otherwise stated.

Except where otherwise stated, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Except where otherwise stated, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

EAUC